Written by Editor on July 01, 2009
MD6 Hash algorithm withdrawn from NIST SHA-3 competition due to concerns over strength of reduced rounds version.
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Written by Editor on July 01, 2009
New research develops an attack against AES-256 that is better than brute force.
Written by Editor on June 23, 2009
Microsoft announce the details of their basic anti-malware service that replaces Windows Live OneCare. Beta for this new product will be available from the 23rd June at 9am PT.
Written by Editor on June 18, 2009
Latest release of the iPhone OS is out and as well as a raft of new features it serves as a security update fixing some 47 different security vulnerabilities in the platform OS.
Written by Editor on June 17, 2009
Security researcher Aviv Raff announces the Month of Twitter Bugs to help highlight the security weaknesses in social networking sites and Web 2.0 services.
Written by Editor on June 10, 2009
It is turning into a busy week, next up for the Patch treatment is Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. Again more critical vulnerabilities to be addressed in the popular document format applications.
Written by Editor on June 10, 2009
It is half way through 2009 and we have the latest batch of security updates from Microsoft, this month we have a grand total of Ten bulletins.
Written by Editor on May 29, 2009
Microsoft release details of a new media file parsing vulnerability that affects DirectX DirectShow and the handling of QuickTime media files.
Written by Editor on May 27, 2009
Microsoft release Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server, it is more of an update rollup than a significant change.
Written by Editor on May 25, 2009
The IIS 6.0 WebDAV Unicode bypass vulnerability gets worse, new versions of IIS vulnerable and IIS ACLs discovered to be ineffective.